To reduce drug–nutrient interactions, it is important to consider timing of drug delivery in relation to EN. This is affected by both the frequency of medication administration and the enteral feeding ...

Enteral feeding is the intake of food when you can’t physically or safely eat regularly. If you have a condition that impairs movement or experienced an injury, enteral feeding may be used to ensure ...

Enteral nutrition is defined as the provision of essential nutrients through an enteral tube to prevent or treat disease-related malnutrition in patients who are unable to consume adequate nutrients ...

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

The effect of delivering nutrition at different calorie levels during critical illness is uncertain, and patients typically receive less than the recommended amount. We conducted a multicenter, double ...

Although the concept of early feedings in preterm neonates was introduced as early as 1960, [28] it was overshadowed by clinical reports linking feedings with NEC. The concept of early enteral ...